On Monday, September 30, we will have class outside Baruch College's Vertical Campus, after the CUNY Board of Trustees meeting. There we will host a 6pm dialogue on the connections between the decision-making process to hire David Petraeus, the implementation of CUNY Pathways, and disregard for student and faculty input in these and many other decisions. How can students, faculty, and staff unite to make our voices heard?

Immediately preceding our event will be a 3:30pm demonstration outside Baruch College to protest the Board of Trustees meeting.

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'Petraeus has also taught the shale gas industry some important things, as well.

Namely, Petraeus was one of the co-authors of the "Counterinsurgency (COIN) Field Manual" that Anadarko Petroleum PR hand Matt Carmichael said he has employees read at the “Media & Stakeholder Relations: Hydraulic Fracturing Initiative 2011” conference in Houston, TX in 2011.

"Download the U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Manual because we are dealing with an insurgency," said Carmichael at the conference. "There’s a lot of good lessons in there, and coming from a military background, I found the insight in that extremely remarkable."

One of the key COIN tactics covered in the Field Manual is psychological operations (PSYOPs), also discussed at the Houston conference by Range Resources spokesman Matt Pitzarella.' from -

'Petraeus also has a teaching gig at University of Southern California (USC) and a day job working at the Wall Street firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR).' from my link above.

With reference to the USMC 'Counter Intelligence Manual' why would we need to read it? So we can normalise the security state? Or so we can withstand it? Whatever floats your boat I suppose and re-replying because I'm advised that my previous reply was removed - probably because I included a link to 'COIN' via amazon so you'll have to find it yourself, embedded in my previous 'NoC' link.

When one considers that it is the collective effort of all the staff that creates the conditions that allow this $200,000 to be paid, one might become upset. However consider that in part because of the nature of this business it is only $200,000, in many other areas a comparable person would get ten or a hundred times as much from his or her fellow co-workers, consider Dick Cheney, (sorry for the profanity), he took $30,000,000/yr from his co-workers.

That would be the next step out all revenue comes from customers, but value comes from the employees, I think it can be seen either way, looking at it this way removes the "well you don't have to buy it" bullshit from the right when talking about what the CEO at Coke makes.